clunch

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His reassuringly expensive £25,000 shed has a wood-burning stove, dimmer switches, sofa bed, sheep’s wool insulation and is painted in muted shades called clunch, mouse’s back and old white.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2017

The clunch probably from hence acquires its inflammable part, which on calcination becomes vitriolic acid.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus

The Sweet Applers, according to Mrs. Nicholls, were "that clunch they might have been brought up in a wood."

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

The abaci of the Early English capitals in the main arcade are of Barnack stone, which is harder than clunch and so more suitable for bearing a weight.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

The church is very ancient; it is cruciform, of flint and clunch stone.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)